Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 2
These men choose this work, frequently because of some deformity which unfits them for the warpath, and they fit themselves for it, sometimes from boyhood.
Who acts: men, deformity · What happens: choose, unfit, fit · To what, where: work, men, boyhood
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Medicine Men Among the Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, deformity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 deformity | punct |
| 7 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 11 deformity | advmod |
| 8 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 deformity | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 because | fixed |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 deformity | det |
| 11 | deformity | deformity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 unfits | nsubj |
| 13 | unfits | unfit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 deformity | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unfits | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 warpath | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 warpath | det |
| 17 | warpath | warpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unfits | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fit | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fit | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fit | nsubj |
| 21 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | conj |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 fit | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fit | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 boyhood | punct |
| 26 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 boyhood | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 boyhood | case |
| 28 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fit | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | this men | this work | because some deformity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 2 | unfit | present | some deformity | men = man | for the warpath | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fit | present | men = man | men = man | boyhood | for warpath | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme from boyhood=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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